Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984
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42 minutes ago, Alpo said:
Fighter pilot? Woman fighter pilot in 1944??
Ferry pilot - yes. Ferry pilot of fighter aircraft - yes.
But fighter pilot???
I don't think so.
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Up until the Industrial Revolution, every town had kept its own local time based on the position of the sun, so there was, for example, a 16 minute difference between London and Plymouth. Railways meant it suddenly made a difference if you were 16 minutes off all the time. And telegraphs meant there was an actual way to share what time it was. Greenwich Mean Time wouldn’t become legally mandated until 1880, apparently because folks kept showing up late to court and blaming their local time zone for the discrepancy.
But accurate clocks weren’t yet common for most people to own. So how did everyone keep up with the newly standardized time? If they lived within sight of the Royal Observatory, they could watch for the “time balls” they dropped to mark the hour (and later the clock kept up to date at the observatory’s gates). But others turned to a more… hands-on service.
Starting in 1836, a former Royal Observatory employee named John Belville charged people an annual fee to use his pocket watch. Once a week, he’d come by and visit them and share the time on his watch—which he kept accurate thanks to his access to the observatory’s chronometers—so they could adjust their own watches accordingly.
John died in 1856, by which time the gate clock showed the public the time and anyone could get the time via telegraph if they really needed to. But John’s 200 subscribers knew and trusted the pocket watch system, so they asked his widow Maria if she’d take up his mantle. She did so for 36 years before retiring. By the time she left the business, people definitely had other ways of accessing the time. But folks couldn’t give up their trusty time lady, so John and Maria’s daughter Ruth took over. Despite the continued advancement of time-keeping tech—and the naysaying of at least one ruthless hater—she kept up the business until 1940. She was 86 when she retired, and apparently only did so because World War II made it too dangerous for a woman of her age to walk the streets.-
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I googled “Army Airforce Manual for ball turret gunners”. I got a lot of text about a manual for gunners.
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When Bella Lugosi died at age 73, he was buried in a Dracula cape.
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In 1944, a U.S. military pilot-in-training named Hazel Ying Lee crash-landed in a wheat field in Kansas. But instead of getting help, she found herself in trouble.
The farmer who owned the field thought she was a Japanese soldier and started chasing her with a pitchfork, yelling to his neighbors that the Japanese were invading Kansas. Soon, Lee was surrounded by the farmer’s angry neighbors. But Hazel stayed calm. She kept telling them over and over that she was an American fighter pilot. Eventually, they believed her and backed off.
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8 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:
The Military has manuals for EVERYTHING. Usually they are behind by about 2 wars. When I enlisted in The Marines in 1977, we were thoroughly trained for Jungle Warfare, like 'Nam. So of course the next war was a Desert War.
About 2002 I met a retired Marine Warrant Officer who was an expert in laying down steel panels for an emergency airstrip.
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2 hours ago, watab kid said:
what could possibly go wrong
Go wrong, go wrogn, go wtnog, og argon, …
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part of my physical therapy is i need to walk more. When the weather is cold, it's a good place to get in a mile or two.
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hmmm, a farm that sells frog's legs.😁
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Not a fan of the store and I go there only if necessary (very, very rarely), but it’s better here.
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When R Lee Ermey was capitalizing on his role as Gunny he sold ‘ringtones’. Use your imagination.
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Sounds like an episode of Monty Python.
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Knowing that it was an invasive species that needed to be removed from the continent, I believe environmentalists would act like Dahliks.
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4 minutes ago, Alpo said:
But I can't find anything that says you can do that with Android. Mildly bummed.
They’ll catch up.
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Among all the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin had the most interesting extracurricular activities. Before he studied electricity or invented bifocals, America’s first postmaster general had a habit of writing essays for his brother’s Boston newspaper under the pseudonym “Silence Dogood.” The 16-year-old posed as a widow because the writing he submitted under his own name was rejected by the New-England Courant, which his older brother James published. Silence had much to say about a variety of subjects, with her commentary touching on such subjects as religion and politics, and she was an instant hit with the weekly paper’s readers — she even received marriage proposals.
Fourteen of these essays were published beginning in 1722, but all good things must come to an end. After slipping Silence’s correspondence under the Courant’s door for several months, Franklin eventually revealed his true identity. His brother was none too pleased with this deception, having warned the younger Franklin against growing too vain in the wake of the essays’ warm reception, and the fallout played a part in Franklin’s departure for Philadelphia — the city where he lived for the rest of his life
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From the web….
Atlanta led 10-4 going into the ninth inning. Reliever Scott Blewett (has anyone noticed his last na— OK, so everybody made the joke, got it) struck out Eugenio Suárez to start the ninth inning.
Fast-forward two blinks, and Suárez was hitting a two-run double off Raisel Iglesias to put the D-Backs up 11-10. Yikes.
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6 hours ago, Alpo said:
I bet you that the frogs, the larvae and the eggs were all carefully removed to some other place and released into the wild.
Now if I was trying to clear an invasive species out of an area, I would kill the invasive species just as fast as I could. Scoop the eggs and larvae out of the water and throw them up on a big tarp so they lay there in the Sun and dehydrate and die. And kill the frogs.
You can't do that now though.
I doubt that.
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Back in the old days of cell service, texts were lowest priority. I don’t think internet data was even thought of then but texts were stored on phone company’s servers until bandwidth was available and the providers just kept racking up those dimes, kaching, kaching. Text might be an hour late but 10¢ more, kaching.
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I think every case is different.
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Perhaps the wire uses a lot of transfer data, I don’t know, I have 2gig fiber.
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Lasagna Genovese Edoardo
caretaker approved
Recipe to follow
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